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Further Notes on the Birds of the Canary Islands
E.G. Meade-Waldo
2 colour plates (Pratincola dacotiae / Parus palmensis): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 503-520
1889
Opening lines: "In the middle of February of this year I paid another visit to the Island of Fuerteventura, meeting by chance in Las Palmas a kindred spirit, Dr. Percy Rendall, of Gambia, who accompanied me. A fortnight later Canon Tristram, whom I had not expected to see, arrived. My principal objects in this visit here to observe the habits of the Chat which I had procured the previous year, to have another good look at the Cream-coloured Courser and Houbara Bustard on their breeding-grounds, and to get living specimens of as many species as I could."
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On the Genus Turnix
W. R. Ogilvie-Grant
Colour plates (Turnix ocellata): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 446-475
1889
Opening lines: "The twenty-two known species of the genus Turnix are primarily divisible into a few groups which can be easily distinguished from one. another ; but to clearly define each of the several species included in these groups is by no means so easy a matter. This will soon become apparent to anyone making a study of the genus, for most of the species pass through intricate changes of plumage, and every character seems to be subject to variation. Whether we look to general colour, markings, size, or other characters, it is almost impossible to form an opinion as to the value of a species without having first studied the group or had a considerable series of specimens to judge from. Nevertheless it will be found that, after allowing a certain margin for variation, these individual differences in plumage are not so irregular as would at first appear, all of them being stages through which each bird passes before reaching maturity."
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On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo
R. Bowdler Sharpe
With notes by John Whitehead
2 colour plates (Orthnocichla whiteheadi / Allocotops calvus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 409-443
1889
A continuation of an paper from an earlier issue.
Opening lines: "Brachypteryx erythrogyna. A young male in Mr. Whitehead's collection is of a duller blue than the adult male, and not only has the abdomen washed with rufous, but has some rufous feathers on the breast, evidently the remains of the first plumage, which must therefore resemble that of the adult female. [Frequents the true forest from 4000 to 8000 feet, though very scarce at the lower elevation, owing to the Dusan rat-traps, which have almost exterminated all the small mammals and ground-loving birds. This species, like the little Androphilus, was most difficult to shoot from its extreme tameness, as it often came within a few feet of us, and followed us for several yards through the forest, making it extremely hard to obtain specimens without blowing them to bits. Eye dark brown; feet and bill black.]"
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Notes on some recently described Species of Dendrocolaptidae
P.L. Sclater
Colour plate (Berlepschia rikeri): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 350-354
1889
Opening lines: "The authorities of the U.S. National Museum have lately most kindly sent me over for examination the typical specimens of some newly described species of Dendrocolaptidae which I was anxious to see. Amongst them is an example of the striking new form, Berlepschia rikeri, of which, by the kind permission of the lenders, I am able now to give a figure (Plate XI). As lately pointed out by Mr. Ridgway, Berlepschia has nothing to do with Picolaptes, as at first supposed, although the tail-feathers are slightly stiffened, but belongs to the subfamily Philydorinae, and may, perhaps, be most conveniently placed, as he has suggested, near Pseudocolaptes."
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Note on Emberiza cioides, Brandt
H.B. Tristram
Colour plate (Emberiza cioides): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 293-294
1889
Opening lines: "Attention has lately been drawn to the Eastern Palearctic Bunting, Emberiza cioides, Brandt, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pet. i. p. 363 (1843), by the fact that our Member, Mr. R. W. Chase, of Birmingham, has lately obtained at Flamborough a specimen of this species. This specimen is stated to have been taken there in October 1887, and to have been mounted from the flesh by Matthew Bailey, who did not know the bird, and was quite ignorant of the interest attaching to it. The species has considerable seasonal variation, and this specimen agrees exactly with one in my own collection obtained near Lake Baikal in the month of October. So far, therefore, the evidence of its occurrence at Flamborough seems satisfactory. But it is curious that the bird has never been met with before in Europe, not even in that resort of unwonted stragglers, Heligoland, nor even in Western Siberia."
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On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo
R. Bowdler Sharpe
With notes by John Whitehead
Colour plate (Chloropsis kinabaluensis): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 265-283
1889
A continuation of an paper from an earlier issue.
Opening lines: "Locustella ochotensis. Sir Hugh Low was the first to meet with this species in Borneo, and his collectors procured in Lumbidan a specimen which is now in the collection of the British Museum, as recorded by Mr. Seebohm (l.c.). [This bird was obtained for me by one of my collectors close to my camp at 1000 feet elevation. It was probably on its way north at the time.]."
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On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo
R. Bowdler Sharpe
With notes by John Whitehead
2 colour plates (Hemichelidon cinericeps and Rhinomyias gularis / Cryptolopha montis and Cryptolopha schwaneri): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 2, pages 185-205
1889
A continuation of an paper from an earlier issue.
Opening lines: "Oriolus xanthonotus. Iris dark lake; bill dull pinkish red; feet blackish brown. Fairly common, frequenting the higher trees in the jungle. It does not extend up Kina Balu beyond 1000 feet. Native name 'Burong Sarawak'."
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Descriptions of two new Birds from Northern Peru
Hans von Berlepsch
Colour plate (Brotogerys gustavi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 2, pages 181-185
1889
Opening lines: "This fine new species I have dedicated to its discoverer, Mr. Gustav Garlepp, of Kothen, Anhalt, who has collected birds during the last three years in different places in Northeastern Peru, and has been fortunate enough to get several of great rarity, such as Cornurus roseifrons, Gray (in great numhers) , Ara couloni, Scl., Pteroglossus beauharnaisi, Zebrilus pumilus (hitherto only known from Guiana), and many others of considerable interest."
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Notes on Birds collected by Dr. G. Radde in the Transcaspian Region
H.E. Dresser
Colour plate (Lanius raddei): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 1, pages 85-92
1889
Opening lines: "Dr. G. Radde of Tiflis, has recently sent to me for examination and identification a selection from a collection of birds obtained chiefly by him during his recent journeys in the Transcaspian Region. He purposes to publish a full account of the birds he observed there in thc 'Ornis;' but it may be of interest to the readers of 'The Ibis' to have a few particulars respecting the small selection sent to me, which contains an example of one new species, a most interesting Shrike, and several other birds of interest."
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On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo
R. Bowdler Sharpe
3 colour plates (Accipiter rupotibalis / Heteroscops luciae / Cissa jefferyi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 1, pages 63-85
1889
Opening lines: "In the present paper I have commenced a list of all the species of birds procured by my friend Mr. John Whitehead during his four years' travels in Northern Borneo. The chief interest naturally centres round his exploration of the great mountain of Kina Balu, of the avifauna of which a complete account is here, for the first time, attempted. The comparison of the natural history of this mountain with that of Sumatra, Java, and Tenasserim I shall leave till the end of the memoir. The following are Mr. Whitehead's notes on his journeys, and all his observations on the habits of the different species are placed between brackets."
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On A Breeding-Colony Of Larus eburneus On Spitsbergen
Professor Robert Collett
Colour plate (Larus eburneus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 4, pages 440-443
1888
Opening lines: "In August 1887 Capt. Johannesen, master of one of the Norwegian Arctic traders, passed Cape Smith, the easternmost point of north-eastern Spitsbergen, and one which has only been reached in summers exceptionally free from ice. On the small island of Storoen, lying about 16 English miles to the east of Cape Smith, in 80' 9' N. lat., he discovered a colony of Larus eburneus, and as it mas easily accessible, and he had not previously succeeded in examining one, although he had seen several in Tsfjorden and in other parts of Spitsbergen, he made a short stay at the island in order, if possible, to obtain eggs and young, which he knew would of interest."
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Further Descriptions of new Species of Birds dicovered by Mr. John Whtehead on the Mount of Kina Balu, Nothern Borneo
R. Bowdler Sharpe
4 colour plates (Oreoctistes leucops and Androphilus accentor / Brachyteryx erythrogyna / Chlorocharis emillae and Megalaema pulcherrima / Harpactes whiteheadi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 4, pages 383-396
1888
Opening lines: "Mr. John Whitehead left Labuan on the 15th of December last, and ascended the great mountain of Kina Balu for the second time. The discoveries of this expedition are no less remarkable than those of the first; but as, by the time that these lines are in print, Mr. Whitehead may be expected in England, I do not propose to do more than give a very few notes on some of the actual novelties and extreme rarities of which he has sent me specimens. Of the rest of the acts of Mr. Whitehead, of the collections he has made, and of the nests and eggs he has found during his four years’ travel in the Malay Archipelago, I hope he will himself give an account. Attention should be especially drawn to the Ceylonese affinities of some of the new genera described in this paper."
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Description d'une nouvelle Espèce du Genre Emberiza
L. Taczanowski
Colour plate (Emberiza jankowskii): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 3, pages 317-319
1888
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List of Birds collected in Eastern Africa by Mr. Frederick J. Jackson, F.Z.S.
Capt. G.E. Shelley
Notes and introduction: Frederick J. Jackson
2 colour plates (Philetaerus cabanisi / Ploceus jacksoni): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 3, pages 287-307
1888
Opening lines: "On Nov. 17, 1884, I left London in the British Indian s.s. Henyada to join my friend Mr. J. G. Haggard, H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul in Lamu, for some big-game shooting and to collect natural-history specimens. On Dec. 25 I arrived at Lamu, a port on the east coast of Africa, some 300 miles north of Zanzibar. For the first two and a half months I did not do much, either shooting or collecting, but after two or three short trips to the mainland, in which I shot a few Waterbucks and Hartebeests, I made preparations for a trip up the river Lana, intending to proceed into the Galla country, making my dhow my head-quarters."
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Further Notes on Calyptomena whiteheadi
R. Bowdler Sharpe
Colour plate (Calyptomena whiteheadi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 2, pages 231
1888
Opening lines: "The brief description which I gave last year (P. Z. S. 1887, p. 558) of this beautiful species was founded on a pair of birds sent by Mr. John Whitehead in advance of the bulk of his collection from Kina Balu. When the whole of the latter arrived last autumn, I described merely the new species (Ibis, 1887, p. 435), leaving Mr. Whitehead to give a complete account of his collection on his return to Europe, which, it is hoped, will take place next August. As many of my readers are aware, he is at present engaged on a second exploration of the mountain of Kina Balu, which I trust may be as successful as the first."
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On a Collection of Birds from the Island of Palawan
R. Bowdler Sharpe
2 colour plates (Syrnium whiteheadi / Prionochilus johannae and Siphia Ehithacus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 2, pages 193-204
1888
Opening lines: "My friend Mr. John Whitehead has sent a fine collection of birds as the result of his expedition to Palawan. He was unsuccessful in getting far into the interior of the island, and was therefore obliged to collect in the neighbourhood of Puerto Princesa, which had been the scene of the labours of Professor Steere and of Mr. Everett. It is sufficient to state that Mr. Whitehead has obtained examples of every species but one met with in Palawan by the before-mentioned naturalists, and Mr. Lempriere also; while he has added to the list 60 species previously unrecorded from Palawan, thus nearly doubling the known avifauna of the island."
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Ornithological Notes of a Tour in Cyprus in 1887
Dr. F.H.H. Guillemard
Colour plate (Parus cypriotes): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 1, pages 94-124
1888
Opening lines: "Those who are acquainted only with the more western islands of the Mediterranean - Corsica, with its snow-capped peak of Monte Rotondo peeping from above the pine-groves; Sicily, with Taormina, the champion view of Europe; Corfu, the richness of whose verdure is hardly to be surpassed even by Madeira - will be more than disappointed with the first view of Cyprus."
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On the Birds of Bhamo, Upper Burmah
Mr. E.W. Oates
Colour plate (Acridotheres albosinctus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 1, pages 70-73
1888
Opening lines: "In 1881 the taxidermist of the Phayre Museum of Rangoon was despatched to Bhamo to form a collection of birds. I had an opportunity of examining all the skins immediately on their arrival in Rangoon; but as the results were not very noteworthy, I have hitherto deferred making any systematic list of them."
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Notes on a Collection of Birds made by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mountain of Kina Balu, in Northern Borneo, with Descriptions of new Species
R. Bowdler Sharpe
2 colour plates (Chlamydocaera jefferyi / Arachnothera juliae): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 4, pages 435-454
1887
Opening lines: "Beyond the few species described by me in the 'Proceedings' of the Zoological Society for 1879 (p. 246), nothing has been ascertained of the ornithology of the remarkable mountain of Kina Balu. In the present paper I give some descriptions of new species of the greatest interest to science, and it is remarkable to find that some of the genera hitherto believed to belong to the Himalayan subregions have received a startling accession of range. Certainly the discoveries by Dr. Beccari of such Himalayan genera as Psarisomus, Pericrocotus, Stachyris, Turdinus, Rimator, Pnoepyga, Buchanga, and Cochoa in the higher regions of Sumatra might have prepared ornithologists for the occurrence of some of these genera in the high ranges of Borneo, which, however, had hitherto been considered very Malayan in its avifauna, the only real Himalayan element having been shown, quite within recent years, by the discovery of Dendrocitta on the Lawas River, Rubigula on Kina Balu, and more lately by that of a Parus and Myiophoneus in the higher districts of Sarawak. Mr. Whitehead’s first expedition has resulted in the enlargement of our knowledge of this strictly Himalayan element, and although he has not yet met with Pnoepyga, Cochoa, or Rimator, it is quite possible that they will all be found, along with such forms as Tarsiger hodgsoni, Hemichelidon cinereiceps, Pterythius aeralatus, Oriolus vulneratus, Staphidia, &c. Apart from these evidences of connection with the Himalayan system of Tenasserim, the Malayan peninsula, and Sumatra, the new forms discovered by Mr. Whitehead are striking enough, viz.: a marvellous new Calyptomena, a new genus of Campophagidae, and a striking new Arachnothera."
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On an apparently new Species of Zosterops from the Island of Anjuan, Comoro Group
H.B. Tristram
Colour plate (Zosterops praetermissa and Zosterops hovarum): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 4, pages 369-371
1887
Opening lines: "I was surprised, on looking through my series of Zosterops, to find a specimen which had been obtained by Mr. C.E. Bewsher in 1879, and had been labelled 2. anjuanensis before I purchased it, but which I had placed, without noticing its label, among my series of grey-backed White-eyes, as the representative of this section from the Comoros. In every point, except in coloration, it comes very close to 2. anjuanensis, but the measurements are slightly larger. I have compared it with eight specimens of its congener, and do not find in any of them the slightest indications of a tendency to vary or to lose the bright olive-green of the upper parts or the rich yellow of the throat. This bird shows no trace of green on the upper surface, which is of a lightish ashen grey; but the throat is very faintly washed with yellow, as is a very narrow portion of the forehead."
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Remarks on the Species of the Genus Cyclorhis
P.L. Sclater
Colour plate (Cyclorhis atrirostris): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 3, pages 320-324
1887
Opening lines: "Having been obliged during the preparation of the first volume of 'Argentine Ornithology' to come to some conclusions as to the correct names of the two Argentine species of Cyclorhis, I have been led to examine carefully the series of specimens of this genus in the National Collection, which, since they were catalogued by Dr. Gadow (Cat. 13. viii. pp. 316 et seqq.) in 1883, have received considerable additions from the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman and my own. As, with the aid of this increased number of specimens, I have come to rather different conclusions as to the best mode of arranging the species of the genus in natural order, I venture to put forward my views on this subject, and at the same time to point out the characters of what I believe to be a new and interesting member of the group."
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On Some New Or Rare Palearctic Birds
Dr. M. Menzbier
Colour plate (Tharrhaleus pallidus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 3, pages 299-302
1887
Opening lines: "I give herewith the descriptions of some new and a few notes on some little-known Palearctic birds, based upon the spccimens preserved in the late Mr. Scvertzow's and my own ornithological collections."
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Notes on the Birds of the Loo-choo Islands
Henry Seebohm
Colour plate (Picus noguchii): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 173-182
1887
Opening lines: "The Loo-choo, Liu-kiu, or Ryu-kyu Islands lie between Japan and Formosa, and enjoy a climate of remarkable equability. The summer is not too hot to permit the growth of wheat, and the winter is not too cold for the cultivation of sugar-cane and pine-apples. From an ornithological point of view these islands are said to rival Heligoland as a station where migration may be seen on an extended scale."
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On a new Species of Trochalopteron from China
F.W. Styan
Colour plate (Trochalopteron cinereiceps): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 166-168
1887
Opening lines: "In 1885 I purchased in Hankow two living specimens of a Trochalopteron which appears to be undescribed, and for which I propose the name of T. cinereiceps. Its nearest ally is T. cineraceum of Godwin-Austen (P. Z. S. 1874, p. 45, pl. xi.), from Munipur, India, from which it differs in its more olive and less grey upper parts, in having a dusky brownish-grey cap to the head instead of black, and in its rufous ear-coverts and white on the cheeks. The underparts in the two species are practically identical."
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Observations upon the Habits of Micropus melanoleucus, with Critical Notes on its Plumage and External Characters
R.W. Shufeldt
Colour plate (Micropus melanoleucus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 151-158
1887
Opening lines: "My first acquaintance with this very interesting Swift was made during the spring of 1878, while I was on my way from the little frontier town of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, to the military station of Fort Laramie, situated some 80 miles to the northward of it. On the Chugwater Creek, about halfway between these two points, we pass some very high and imposing chalk cliffs which constitute the more striking and prominent features of the landscape, as the country about them is low and unbroken, being quite prairie like in its character"
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Description of a new Species of the Genus Setophaga
Osbert Salvin
Colour plate (Setophaga flavivertex): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 129-130
1887
Opening lines: "Mr. Whitely recently brought me two specimens of this Setophaga, together with a few other birds, stating that he had received them from a correspondent who had obtained them in the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta in Colombia. Amongst the other species in the same collection I find Basileuterus conspicillatus and Buarremon melanocephalus, both discovered by Mr. Simons in this district, and as yet only known to be found there"
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On An Apparently Undescribed Hawk Of The Asturine Subgenus Urospizias, Proposed To Be Called Urospizias jardinei
J.H. Gurney
Colour plate (Urospizias jardinei): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 96-98
1887
Opening lines: "Amongst the Raptorial specimens which were acquired for the Norwich Museum at the recent sale of the collection of
the late Sir William Jardine is a Hawk which bears a ticket
with the following inscription: 'Astur poliocephalus'. The bird is certainly not Aslur poiiocephatus of Gray, and much more nearly resembles an adult of the white-breasted phase of Urospizias albigularis; it is, however, quite distinct, as will appear by the measurements given below, in which I have compared it with an adult specimen (a female, as I believe) of Uroapizias albigularis as well as by certain differences of coloration, which I will also specify"
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A Review of the Species of the Family Ploceidæ of the Ethiopian Region
G.E. Shelley
2 colour plates (Ploceus gurneyi and Ploceus angolensis / Ploceus capitalis and Malimbus rubropersonatus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 1-47
1887
Opening lines: "The second subfamily of the Ploceidae, Ploceinae, is distinguished by the larger size of the bastard primary, which is never very sharply pointed; the tail always square or rounded, never elongated nor graduated; the claws always of moderate length, strong, and much curved. The species of this group generally build in colonies, and with few exceptions their nests are hung from the ends of boughs or reeds, and are spherical, with an elongated entrance."
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A List of the Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely in British Guiana
Osbert Salvin
Colour plates (Pipreola whitelyi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 4, pages 499-510
1886
Opening lines: "Since the last portion of this paper was published (antea, p. 181), Mr. Whitely has again returned to England, after a stay of about twelve months on the Carimang River, during which time he made another extensive collection of bird-skins, and having brought them home with him, he has submitted them to us for examination."
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Description of a new Ground-finch from Western Peru
P.L. Sclater
Colour plates (Haemophila pulchra): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 3, pages 258-259
1886
Opening lines: "My excellent and much valued correspondent, Prof. William Nation, of Lima, has lately sent me a single skin of a Ground-finch from the upper valley of the Rimac, which seems to belong to an undescribed and very distinct species of the genus Haemophila. It is evident from the specimens previously forwarded by Prof. Nation from the same district, as also from the fine novelties in plants recently gathered by Mr. John Ball in the upper valley of the Rimac, that there is still much to be done by collectors on the Transandean slopes of Peru."
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On some new Paradise-birds
O. Finsch and A.B. Meyer
Colour plates (Paradisornis rudolphi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 3, pages 237-258
1886
Opening lines: "Amongst the collectors who at first founded and afterwards materially increased our knowledge of the zoology of South eastern New Guinea, the principal credit is due to our fellow-countryman, Karl Hunstein, of Friedberg, in Hesse. A first-rate shot, collector, and observer, it was he who, after the failure of the gold-diggers’ expedition (in the ranks of which he first visited New Guinea, seven years ago), in company with the well-known collector, Andrew Goldie, made several excursions into the same district of New Guinea and eastwards to Milne Bay and the d'Entrecasteaux Islands."
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On a Collection of Birds from the vicinity of Muscat
R. Bowdler Sharpe
Colour plates (Bubo Milesi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 2, pages 162-168
1886
Opening lines: "For the collection here described the British Museum is indebted to the kindness of Colonel Miles, and the interest which attaches to any series of birds from a new locality is certainly not wanting in the present instance. The only information me possess up to the present concerning the ornithology of this part of Arabia is contained in a short reference in Mr. Hume's diary of his expedition to Sind and the Mekran coast."
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On a new Species of Barbet of the Genus Trachyphonus
Dr. G. Hartlaub
Colour plates (Trachyphonus shelleyi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 2, pages 105-112
1886
Opening lines: "When I read the description of Trachyphonus erythrocephalus in Capt. Shelley's paper on the Birds of Somaliland (Ibis, 1885, p. 394), I came to the conclusion that the Somali bird did not belong to that species. Capt. Shelley having kindly lent me one of the specimens, I have been able to compare it with the type of Tr. erythrocephalus in the Berlin Museum; and finding my suspicions justified, I now propose to describe the Somali bird as Trachyphonus shelleyi."
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On some interesting Additions to the Avifauna of Bucaramanga, U.S. of Colombia
Hans von Berlepsch
Colour plates (Donacicola hunsteini): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 1, pages 53-57
1886
Opening lines: "In the Journal fur Ornithologie for 1884, pp. 273-320, I have spoken of a large collection of bird-skins from Bucaramanga sent to the Lubeck Museum by Mr. Emilio Minlos, a German resident of that city. Lately I have had the pleasure of examining another collection from the same source, which was most obligingly placed in my hands for determination by my friend Dr. H. Lenz, of Lubeck. In general this second collection contained but little additional material worthy of notice; indeed, it furnished but three species which were not represented in the first consignment. However, two of these are of no small interest: one being quite new to science, the other not yet known as a denizen of New Granada."
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On the Species of the Genus Plotus and their Distribution
H.B. Tristram
Colour plates (Donacicola hunsteini): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 1, pages 41-43
1886
Opening lines: "There are few groups in ornithology more distinct than the subfamily Plotinae - so sharply marked that not an aberrant Cormorant on the one side, or Tropic-bird on the other, has ever been suspected of balancing itself on the boundary-fence. Yet even this self-contained group has not escaped the fate of all others, of being subdivided into baseless species."
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On Two New Species Of Birds From New Ireland
O. Finsch
Colour plates (Donacicola hunsteini): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 1, pages 1-2
1886
Opening lines: "DONACICOLA HUNSTEINI, sp. nov. Male. Black, quills lighter, more of a brownish black; vertex and nape ashy grey, the latter lighter; all these greyish feathers with dark brown centres; lores and cheeks black, with faint greyish apical edges, giving these parts a somewhat mottled appearance; upper tail-coverts dark chestnut, as are the external margins of the central tail-feathers; under wing-coverts pale rufous; bill aiid feet black; iris dark."
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On Mr. E. Lort Phillips's Collection of Birds from Somali-land
Captain G.E. Shelley
3 colour plates (Dryoscopus ruficeps and Telephonus jamesi / Argya aylmeri and Parus thruppi / Saxicola phillipsi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 389-418
1885
Opening lines: "MR. E. Lort Phillips, F.Z.S., accompanied by his friends Messrs. James, Aylmer, and Thrupp, left Berbera, on the Gulf of Aden, on the 22nd December, 1884, and returned there again towards the middle of the following April. They journeyed nearly due south along the parallel 45' E. long. to about 5' N. lat. On leaving Berbera they crossed for the first eight miles a low flat country and then ascended to the high plateau-land 3000 feet above the sea. This plateau is a parched desert for about six months in the year, and it was during this period that most of the specimens were collected."
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An Autumn Ramble in Eastern Iceland, with some Notes from the Faroes
Wm Eagle Clarke and James Backhouse
Colour plate (Lagopus rupestris): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 364-380
1885
Opening lines: "The morning of the 2nd of September, 1884, found us on board the Danish Royal Mail Boat 'Thyra,' steaming down the Forth en route for Iceland, via the Faroe Islands. At about 11 A.M. on the 3rd we sighted the Orkneys, and these passed, a north-westerly course was shaped, carrying us south of the Shetlands, of which group only Fair Island and Foula were seen from afar. The Faroes should have been in sight early on the morning of the 4th, but the islands were shrouded in drizzling mist, a characteristic feature in the climate of the group. Numerous Fulmars sailing round the vessel heralded our approach, and in due course the bold outline of Sudcroe loomed through the veil of mist, whilc to the eastward the cone-capped Dimons appeared, illumined by a stray sun-ray."
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A List of the Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely in British Guiana
Osbert Salvin
Colour plate (Pachyrhamphus griseigularis): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 291-306
1885
This is the continuation of a paper from an earlier issue.
Opening lines: "Oxyrhumphus hypoglaucus, Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1883, Merumk Mountains, Roraima (3500 ft.)."
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On a Collection of Birds from the Island of Cozumel
Osbert Salvin
Colour plate (Spindalis exsul): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 2, pages 185-194
1885
Opening lines: "The collection of birds described below was formed by Mr. E. C. J. Devis, who, after residing for some time in Northern Yucatan, visited Cozumel before returning to England. The centre of Cozumel is situated in about lat. 20' 30' N., long. 86' 50' W. The island lies off the east coast of Yucatan, a little to the southward of Cape Catoche. It is an irregular oval in shape, about twenty-five miles long and ten wide, and is separated from the mainland by a channel about ten miles wide."
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On two new Birds from Borneo
Rev. H.H. Slater
Colour plate (Parus cinerascens): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 2, pages 121-124
1885
Opening lines: "In a small collection of bird-skins from the neighbourhood of Sarawak, Borneo, for which I am indebted to Mr. W. A. Harvey, there are two interesting forms, belonging to genera not yet recorded from Borneo. One is a Myiophoneus (unfortunately an immature individual), on which some remarks will follow; the other is a Parus, which I propose to call Parus cinerascens."
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The Ornithology of St. Kilda
Charles Dixon
Colour plate (Troglodytes hirtensis): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 1, pages 69-97
1885
Opening lines: "Perhaps no part of the British Islands is more interesting to the ornithologist than St. Kilda. On this bleak and sublimely grand ocean-rock some of the rarest and the most interesting birds in our fauna find a congenial home; here alone they may be studied at their breeding-places. Now that it is known that St. Kilda possesses a Wren peculiar to its rocky shores the interest attaching to it will be increased, and the fact may serve to draw the attention of British ornithologists to the little bird's secluded home."
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Ornithological Notes from Corsica
John Whitehead
Colour plate (Sitta whiteheadi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 1, pages 24-48
1885
Opening lines: "Arriving in Ajaccio in the middle of November 1882, I remained in the neighbourhood, shooting and collecting birds, until the beginning of January 1883, when I crossed the island to Aleria, and worked my way down the east coast to Bonifacio, and, via Sartene, back to Ajaccio. A great storm on the 12th March, which lasted three days, added many birds to my list, some of which I did not meet with again. On the 22nd of March I started for Bastia; but as the shooting on the lagoon there proved a failure, I left in two days for Ajaccio by the west coast, but during the whole journey hardly noticed a bird. In April I returned to the east coast, where I remained moving from place to place until the 15th of June. The shooting of the new Nuthatch induced a second trip, but only added thirty birds new to my list. As some of the best days of the season of passage were spent in the mountains, no doubt I missed a few birds."
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